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Behold: Donna

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Daryanna Barrett

Writer/Director
Synopsis
Tv show host Donna Gérbage lives with the unfortunate ability to see threatening messages in everything she reads from an unknown entity that wants to harm her. She ignores the issue until it affects the premiere of her sketch comedy show Trash Tv. So, she seeks the help of a mysterious eye doctor, Dr. Visiam, who inadvertently makes things worse.
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Beach Logs Kill

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Haley Z. Boston

Writer/Director
Synopsis
BEACH LOGS KILL is a surrealist daydream-slash-nightmare set in the heightened reality of a teen girl’s mind – a girl who has a burning crush on the school’s celebrated star quarterback, also a girl. The film is a hallucinogenic exploration of the age-old question that frequently complicates a young queer person’s life – do I want to be them, or be inside of them? The answer is not so cut-and-dry, and neither is life, and neither is this film.
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96% COOKED

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Mike Langer

Writer/Director
Synopsis
At the tail end of a funeral service, a woman begins to suspect there's something wrong with her father's urn...
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The Trip

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Arabella Anderson

Writer/Director
Synopsis
Luna, Max and Zoe are on a girls getaway in the desert to do some much needed unwinding and unplugging from the world. After hanging poolside all day, Zoe and Max convince Luna to take psychedelic mushrooms with them to help expand their minds. But when the shrooms begin to take greater effect, Luna's anxieties about climate change and human nature are unearthed, shifting the tide of the trip. As they spiral deeper into a bad trip, each woman finds herself having to confront her inner darkness and anxieties in corporeal forms of hallucinated horrors.
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Wake

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Sean Carter

Writer/Director
Synopsis
With a hurricane raging outside their hospital, two nurses have one last job before evacuating: stow the "dead-on-arrival" corpse of a young girl in the downstairs morgue before the building floods. But the corpse quickly reveals itself to be more than it seems.
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Thirst Trap

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Samuel Aguirre-Kelly

Director
Synopsis
Lizzie doesn’t believe in vampires—until she becomes one. Burdened by a new kind of thirst, Lizzie realizes that men on dating apps are easy prey … but the more she feeds, the emptier she feels. Thirst Trap is a horror comedy about the isolation of modern dating and the value of connections forged beyond a screen.
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There's Someone At Your Door

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Jacob Ewing

Writer/Director
Synopsis
When an invisible intruder begins appearing on camera, a young woman's quiet Halloween night becomes a nightmarish struggle to survive as she is forced to learn: what you can't see will hurt you.
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The Shadow of Dawn

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Olga Stalev

Writer/Director
Synopsis
An incorporeal Shadow takes up a dangerous adventure through a mystical forest, fancy castle and dream world to save her frivolous owner from a cursed Beast.
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El Jacho: A Puerto Rican Urban Legend

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Adrián Borges

Co-Writer/Director
Synopsis
“EL JACHO” comes to life as a love letter and testament to the slasher horror genre that was highly popular in the ‘70s & ‘80s. Witness the terrifying Puerto Rican legend of a supernatural killer looking to purge its sins through its victims.
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Dormant

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Niels Bourgonje

Writer/Director
Synopsis
A man cares for his comatose wife at home. After a transgression, he fears something sinister has awakened in her.
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Bath Bomb

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Colin G Cooper

Director
Synopsis
A possessive doctor prepares an ostensibly romantic bath for his narcissistic boyfriend, but after an accusation of infidelity, things take a deeply disturbing turn.